Bride-to-be loses ring, found by train conductor

BOSTON -- A bride-to-be lost her engagement ring on a Commuter Rail train on Tuesday, but thanks to the crew it’s back where it belongs.

“I was so frantic and crying and running from train to train. This could have been the worst day of my life, but it turned out okay,” said Katelyn Peckman.

Peckman took her usual 8 a.m. train into North Station, but quickly realized while she was at work that something was missing.

“I was washing my hands and I realized it wasn’t on my finger anymore. It was scary, it was awful,” said Peckman.

The engagement ring’s monetary value is quite obvious, but the sentimental value was priceless.

“The diamond in the center is my mother’s first engagement stone. I was just mortified that I lost that,” said Peckman.

Peckman’s her coworkers heard about the lost ring and set off a fire storm of tweets and Facebook posts, while she returned to North Station to search.

“Everybody on the train was on the floor looking for it with me,” said Peckman.

At the same time the same train that delivered Peckman to work was making its second trip back to the station. That’s when something caught conductor Thomas Booth’s eye.

“I was walking back to the…end of the train and I looked down and I saw a ring laying on the floor of the train,” said Thomas Booth.

Peckman thought someone would have found it and kept it or that it was lost forever. She didn’t anticipate a miracle was awaiting her at North Station.

“It’s definitely a miracle, I mean, that many people that pass back and forth between the train and it’s crazy, I’m just so happy,” said Peckman.

Peckman is set to be married next November.

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